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by d1zzy 7y ago
It depends on where you coming from. I agree that for someone that had a very active social life before having kids and moving to the suburbs would likely see a drop in that activity when suddenly having to take care of small kids in a subu
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> Not really. It's obvious that Netflix or any other corporation doesn't care about minorities, gay rights, women, or what have you. Can you back that up? Since it's "obvious" it should be very easy. I'm no
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> The fact that every single minority MUST be represented in every single movie—despite the fact that this makes the story less believable or even weaker is what's annoying. Not to mention changing established characters (like Ghost
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Every piece of art contains some sort of message. What distinguishes this type of message from other messages, what makes this propaganda and why other messages aren't? Is it that any message which shows something which you don't
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I can see some of the things you listed as potentially pushing an agenda (like "all white guys being bad", whatever that means) but showing a normal "mixed-race gay couple" or the "single mother ending up in a mixed
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by d1zzy 7y ago
It does make sense for them to take a stand if they hope to be able to hire local talent in Silicon Valley. A lot of the seemingly political stands these tech companies take lately are done with an eye towards protecting or supporting their
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I think Netflix is pursuing the Silicon Valley mantra of product development: try everything, iterate fast, fail things fast. We've seen how that resulted in eroding users trust in many Google products (chat applications especially) so
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Almost all major credit cards have a system to generate virtual card numbers with dollar limits on them. Generate a virtual card number with some limit, give to the kid or configure it on their device. Every time you need to increase the li
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Anything can be an addiction, meaning if it stops you from going to school/work, building and maintaining relationships, having food and shelter then it qualifies IMO. So while I support trying to help people in this situation I would
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by d1zzy 7y ago
"indexing" is only part of the problem, it's a batch job. I find being able to respond to searches across a huge data set in the order of milliseconds (while having planet scale fail over) be a lot more challenging to impleme
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by d1zzy 7y ago
But you have to acknowledge that without the cross-financing those "markets" wouldn't even exist. Before Google Maps we had a few online map services and they were terrible. Google Maps redefined what it means to have free ac
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I hope this doesn't result in e-cigs getting banned in the US because that would be terrible. I live in the same house with someone who has been smoking since they were a teenager (quite common where we're from) and e-cigs has all
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I keep all my .fit files uploaded to Google Drive. So I do use the cloud stuff but it seems unlikely (barring a disaster) that it'll go away anytime soon. If it does I can simply upload them to another cloud file storage service. Wh
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I wouldn't go that far... or maybe it depends on what you define as "tiny". For a place to rent you can find 2500 sqft higher end apartments relatively close to work for 3000-3500 a month. The total income of a senior enginee
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by d1zzy 7y ago
> No, it would be more like your company going to France, selling the French guy the game, and then coming back to the US. The burden of tax compliance is placed on you, the seller, because you are the one profiting from the activity and
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I can see how micro might not be interesting for people more into strategy games like chess but the macro is strategy. Sure Starcraft may not be best for that (I much prefer Ashes of the Singularity for example for a more strategy focused R
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by d1zzy 7y ago
FEAR, Far Cry, STALKER are pretty good (but very different of course, since FEAR worked in closed areas and the latter two in open areas). Also, we need a way to put all those new cores AMD is bringing to desktop CPUs to good use :)
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I thought only samples of audio from speech that is addressed to the Home device (starts with "OK Google...") is sent to humans. That by definition makes it not a conversation in the privacy of your home, it's a conversation
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I would imagine that for the people that didn't grow up in such a country ruled by Securitate do not have the experience to make them fear being listened in. Not saying that they are wrong (they may turn out to be right), just that we
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by d1zzy 7y ago
But in order to tell if it contains PII it has to be listened in by a human to transcribe it... It's like Schrödinger's audio assistant ;)
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Does it matter how much they're payed? They're probably payed the right amount relative to the work they are doing. Also how is having access to small samples of audio a privacy issue? Are they also receiving enough information to
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Then it sounds like you haven't worked much in system development with many classes that have identity semantics (encapsulate system resources like processes, locks, mutexes, threads, etc) trying to write highly performant code while b
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I'm in this exact situation. I've been using this newer Macbook Pro with a touch bar and the larger more sensitive touch pad and it's been a huge hassle. I believe it's related to how people type but I've been typin
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Maybe it depends on how you type and rest your hand over the keyboard. For me I've had a macbook pro with touch bar for the last 6+ months and it hasn't gotten better at all. But in all honesty it's not just the touch bar, i
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by d1zzy 7y ago
There is a difference however between demonetizing clips (ie not showing ads associated with certain content) and outright banning them. I feel the latter should be reserved for very few types of contents (mostly contents that is illegal to
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Don't try to find logic where there is none. Just because people don't blame libraries for teaching someone how to do bad things it doesn't mean the same people won't blame Youtube for doing the same. Our thought proces
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Not if you agree to an EULA that explicitly prohibits it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd#Blizzard_takedown_demand... And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologie... . N
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by d1zzy 7y ago
It has applied in the past: https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
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by d1zzy 7y ago
Yes, EULA is a contract and has been successfully tested in court against reverse engineering: https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd
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by d1zzy 7y ago
I disagree that it's similar. It's one thing to perform surveillance on individuals where you have strong reasons to suspect they will engage in terrorist acts (meaning making plans to kill lots of people) and quite another to do

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